Tom Cowan
@termcern.bsky.social
Urban Geographer writing on property, technology & urbanisation | Author of Subaltern Frontiers https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/subaltern-frontiers/C7AFB9376F61176080F3CF9B43B72905
At Critical Legal Thinking, Tanzil Chowdhury discusses Left and Right strategies of legislative supremacy in Great Britain.
Left and Right Strategies of Legislative Supremacy in Great Britain
Over at the LPE blog, a series of contributions has advanced why legislative supremacy ought to be part of a socialist left strategy. Partly, this is a
criticallegalthinking.com
Pubs for the People has a new cover An antidote to right wing fantasies that present the pub as white England, we highlight the everyday togetherness forged in the pubs across the nation Out Oct @manchesterup.bsky.social A bargain £18.99 for hardback ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...
Just over one month to go until two-day Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents All ⭐ line-up 📆 23-24 July 📍 Chestnut Grove Academy, Balham, South London Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org Come one, come all (+ free lunch!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch... @sriucl.bsky.social
The University of Nottingham is cutting over 600 academic jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers. "The lecturers *are* the University, and without them it's nothing" - Geography student (BBC interview): www.instagram.com/reels/DYprAN...
BBC Nottingham on Instagram: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picket line at a protest over job los...
6,038 likes, 179 comments - bbceastmidlands on May 22, 2026: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picke...
instagram.com
URGENT - UCU St Andrews Member - Antonis Vradis is on the Qannir La Cirena boat in the Global Summid Flotilla which has been intercepted by Israel Contact your MP and MSP Contact the Principal Please share
Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham. While the UK government play musical chairs with the keys to number 10, the Higher Education sector continues to burn to the ground. The levels of social, scientific and cultural loss across UK universities in the past 5 years is beyond calculation.
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3mo agoNottingham job cuts ‘pose systemic risks to research’, union warns. Research-intensive university told it risks “intellectual stagnation” as 2,700 staff put at risk of redundancy. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
I could not be angrier or more heartbroken today as thousands of staff at the University of Nottingham receive official communication that they’re up for redundancy. But I also could not be prouder of my inspiring colleagues who refuse to simply accept this as inevitable. We will fight for our jobs!
LopaLeach@lopa.bsky.social · 3mo ago@uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk . www.theguardian.com/education/20...
My new paper is out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It contributes to ongoing debates on the current conjuncture and conjunctural analysis by placing the destruction of Gaza at the center. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
📢 The Department of Geography and Environmental Science @uniofreading.bsky.social are looking to hire two Lecturers in Human Geography. Info on each post in thread below. Please share widely! ⭐ You can read more about our Human Geography Research Cluster here: www.reading.ac.uk/ges/research...
I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance
In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise ‘solutions’ to climate change. But what must happen for pri...
tandfonline.com
New article out: What's the point of conjunctural analysis? doi.org/10.1177/2754...
What's the point of conjunctural analysis? - Matthew Thompson, 2026
With conjunctural approaches to urban research fast proliferating, along with the compounding crises they seek to study, now's the time to ask: what's...
doi.org
One final call for this session at the RGS, as we could do with one more paper to round out some amazing looking sessions. Please consider submitting, or share with someone who might! tacity.co.uk/2026/01/30/c...
CfP @ RGS-IBG 2026: Unconventional Geographies of Solidarity
01-04 September 2026, London Session Organizers: Oli Mould (Royal Holloway, University of London), Hanxi Wang (University College London) In Multitude (2004), political philosophers Michael Hardt a…
tacity.co.uk
New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access! doi.org/10.1177/2043...
Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026
This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...
doi.org
🎉 2025 IJURR Best Article goes to Expert Fixers: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai by Sangeeta Banerji. 👉 www.ijurr.org/best-article...
BREAKING: NO CONVICTIONS AS VERDICTS COME IN FOR FILTON24 TRIAL After 8 days of deliberation, the jury have not convicted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie (Leona) Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin on any charge. Defend Our Juries comment to follow.
New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access! doi.org/10.1177/2043...
Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026
This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...
doi.org
DIGITAL ECOLOGIES is available for just £15 in paperback until the end of January; discount applied automatically unless you're in North America, where you need to type "JAN40" at payment this also applies to ALL @manchesterup.bsky.social books!!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... @campolis.bsky.social
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Precarity is not a niche issue. One-third of academic Geographers in the UK are on fixed-term contracts. Our report shows the profound personal, professional, and disciplinary impacts of this. #StatesofPrecarity Full report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
rgs.org
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
Looking forward to discussing @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social's essential new book on subsumption at @histmat.bsky.social conference this week -- subsumption heads, this is the one - come through!
Fascinating insights into the technics of digitalized propertization that is underway across rural and peri-urban India:
Tom Cowan@termcern.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew paper in @tibg.bsky.social: High-resolution property: drone enclosures in digital India In it I examine how mass digitized enclosures rely upon a new regime of perception - able to speculatively extract private ownership from collectivised land rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fascinating essay on digital public infrastructure & India's software capital www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dig... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
The State and Software Capital | Mila Samdub
India’s digital public infrastructure and the promise of the world’s largest online consumer market
phenomenalworld.org
Incredibly happy to have been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography! Big thanks to all my friends and colleagues for all their support - and the @leverhulme.ac.uk for the recognition.
Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · 10mo agoThe Trust is thrilled to announce the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners. Congratulations to this year’s cohort. Thirty extraordinary researchers from across a range of disciplines: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
New paper in @tibg.bsky.social: High-resolution property: drone enclosures in digital India In it I examine how mass digitized enclosures rely upon a new regime of perception - able to speculatively extract private ownership from collectivised land rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
econgeog.net
